Anglican Evangelical Group Movement

The Anglican Evangelical Group Movement:

The Anglican Evangelical Group Movement began as a small, informal grouping of discontented evangelicals within the Church of England in 1906. It is said to have emerged as a result of the visit of Douglas Thornton, a member of the missionary union, to St Aidan's College, Birkenhead, where he found a number of people discontented with the direction evangelicalism had taken in the last quarter of the nineteenth century. Thornton inspired them to some kind of action and after two meetings, the Group Movement (as it was called in the early stages) began with the Liverpool Six - Lisle Carr, H Probyn, A J Tait, A F Thornhill, B C Jackson and F S Guy Warman. The latter, at that time was vicar of Birkenhead and became first permanent secretary and in 1908 he replaced Tait as principal of St Aidan's.

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